In re A.M. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-185-16, 11 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Brunswick County District Court (W. Fred Gore, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although the trial court did not actually find that the child A.M. suffered emotional damage ...

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Foss v. Miller (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-079-16, 8 pp.) (Richard Dietz, J.) Appealed from Iredell County District Court (H. Thomas Church, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Even though the trial court’s child support order recites the defendant-father’s testimony, since the ...

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Elder v. Elder (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-090-16, 7 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County District Court (Gary Henderson, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Even though the trial court ordered the plaintiff-father to pay a child support arrearage of ...

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Ribelin v. Creel (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-020-16, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Rowan County District Court (Charlie Brown, J.) On appeal from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding:  As to the appeal of right based on the ...

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Adams v. Lewis (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-072-16, 21 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Beaufort County District Court (Michael Paul, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Although the trial court may require the plaintiff-father to pay his share of the uninsured ...

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Malinak v. Malinak (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0814, 8 pp.) (Douglas McCullough, J.) Appealed from Alexander County District Court (Deborah Brown, J.) N.C. App. Holding: The defense of laches does not apply to a claim for the nonpayment of court-ordered child ...

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In re J.C. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-0594, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Johnston County District Court (Resson Faircloth, J.) On appeal from a divided panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: The district court made ...

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Sood v. Sood The trial court’s custody order was temporary in that it left open the issues of psychological evaluations of the parties’ mental conditions, the defendant-father’s child support arrearage, and holiday schedules after the 2012 spring break. In fact, the father concedes in his brief that the custody order is temporary. Therefore, the order is interlocutory.

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In re C.A.C. When the petitioner-mother sought to serve the respondent-father by publication, she was required to comply with the notice provisions of both N.C. R. Civ. P. 4(j1) and G.S. § 7B-1106(b). Since the notice that the mother placed in the newspaper completely omitted any reference to the father’s right to counsel, she failed to comply with § 7B-1106(b)(4).

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Sides v. Ikner The plaintiff-father fully complied with the custody order which gave him joint legal and secondary physical custody of his son, “Luke.” When he learned that the defendant-mother had joined the Air Force -- not the Air Force Reserves as she had told him -- and was moving to Germany, the father objected to allowing Luke to continue to live with the intervenor-grandmother.

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